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Answers on the back. 21 April 2021
Every now and then a writer comes along and makes you realise - oh jeepers, this is how it should be done. I m reading Albert and the Whale, by Philip Hoare, at the moment, and it s slow going because every other page - oh jeepers.
There s so much to talk about, and this isn t really the place. Instead, let me tell you about this one thing. Albert and the Whale is a book about Albrecht Dürer, one of those artists I ve always avoided because their work is so vast and so varied that I wouldn t even know where to start. Maybe this is where to start, Dürer s St Jerome of 1494, one of his first paintings. A saint in the wilderness. But don t worry about that. The picture is small. Turn it over. And on the back?
A whale of a time with Albrecht Dürer spectator.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spectator.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How Dürer shaped the modern world Philip Hoare explores how the artist’s obsession with science, magic and self-promotion paved the way for our existential age. In 1520 Albrecht Dürer travelled to Zeeland to see a whale stranded on the sands. A storm drove back his boat and by the following morning it had also blown the fabulous creature back out to sea. The artist never saw his whale, so instead he drew sea monsters, putting them together like Frankenstein out of bits of this and that: eel, unicorn, dolphin, crocodile, mermaid. The year before, Pope Leo X had received a Rosmer – a walrus – from a Norwegian bishop; not the entire creature, just its head, salted in a barrel like a dead naval hero. Dürer imagined the entire walrus and made a picture of it. The disconnect between the pickled head and imagined body parts lends Dürer’s creation the tragic pathos of Hans Christian Andersen’s little mermaid, who sells her soul to swap her tail for legs – the price of h
Albert and the Whale by Philip Hoare review – his greatest work yet theguardian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theguardian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.